ECSTATIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ecstatic mean? 

• ECSTATIC (adjective)
  The adjective ECSTATIC has 1 sense:

1. feeling great rapture or delight

  Familiarity information: ECSTATIC used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ECSTATIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Feeling great rapture or delight

Synonyms:

ecstatic; enraptured; rapt; rapturous; rhapsodic

Similar:

joyous (full of or characterized by joy)

Derivation:

ecstasy (a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion)

ecstasy (a state of elated bliss)

 Context examples 

I exclaimed, in a state of high ecstatic fervour, that not a moment's consideration could be necessary.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Having removed this impediment, and lifted certain silvery envelopes of tissue paper, she merely exclaimed—"Oh ciel! Que c'est beau!" and then remained absorbed in ecstatic contemplation.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Felix seemed ravished with delight when he saw her, every trait of sorrow vanished from his face, and it instantly expressed a degree of ecstatic joy, of which I could hardly have believed it capable; his eyes sparkled, as his cheek flushed with pleasure; and at that moment I thought him as beautiful as the stranger.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

His pleasure in music, though it amounted not to that ecstatic delight which alone could sympathize with her own, was estimable when contrasted against the horrible insensibility of the others; and she was reasonable enough to allow that a man of five and thirty might well have outlived all acuteness of feeling and every exquisite power of enjoyment.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Her manners showed good sense and good breeding; they were neither shy nor affectedly open; and she seemed capable of being young, attractive, and at a ball without wanting to fix the attention of every man near her, and without exaggerated feelings of ecstatic delight or inconceivable vexation on every little trifling occurrence.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

I dreamed, I thought, that once while he was blowing into this dismal flute, the old woman of the house, who had gone nearer and nearer to him in her ecstatic admiration, leaned over the back of his chair and gave him an affectionate squeeze round the neck, which stopped his playing for a moment.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

First he nodded politely, and then his face broke into that radiant and understanding smile, as if we'd been in ecstatic cahoots on that fact all the time.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

"Has it?" When he realized what I was talking about, that there were twinkle-bells of sunshine in the room, he smiled like a weather man, like an ecstatic patron of recurrent light, and repeated the news to Daisy. "What do you think of that? It's stopped raining."

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

Under the dripping bare lilac trees a large open car was coming up the drive. It stopped. Daisy's face, tipped sideways beneath a three-cornered lavender hat, looked out at me with a bright ecstatic smile.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)